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Singh, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Eastern Military Region of the Indian Army, fell into a panic when he heard the news that the defense line of the 24th Division of the Indian Army had been breached by hundreds of "tanks".He is a general of the army who is basically a parallel importer. He has neither received strict military training, nor has he actually commanded the army. It was only because he was the confidant of Indian Vice President Boss that he was appointed as the Minister of the Army. He also served as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Military Region, which is actually just a display. The real power is still the chief of staff and adviser Louis Mountbatten.

"General Mountbatten, these Chinese are coming to attack Calcutta!" Admiral Singer looked at the sand table in the war room for a long time, and finally saw that the goal of the South Asian Army of the Communist International seemed to be Calcutta. "What should we do? There are only some local troops in Calcutta, which are not vulnerable at all... Shall we bring troops from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to Calcutta?"

"I'm afraid it's too late. The Chinese have broken through the 8th Army's defense line, and the 9th Army will soon be defeated... Our four armies stationed in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, the nearest The 12th Army will take 10 days at the earliest to reach Calcutta, and the Communist Party will have already entered the city by then!" Mountbatten's voice was calm and indifferent, as if all this had nothing to do with him, he folded his arms in the sand table Staring at the front for a while, he said again: "And even if the 12th Army can arrive before Calcutta falls, they are definitely not the opponents of the more than 20 Communist Army. If these armies come one after another and are defeated by the Chinese one by one, it may not be Calcutta and East and West Bengal that will fall, but the entire eastern part of India.”

Louis Mountbatten was almost a long-lost general in another time and space, but a long-lost general who can make his way to a field marshal is enough to show that he is not a fool.He saw through the wishful thinking of the South Runner-up of the Communist International at a glance.

But being able to see through the opponent's plan does not mean being able to come up with a countermeasure.Judging from the current battle situation, the 8th and 9th armies of the Indian army may be about to collapse. Even if the entire army is not wiped out, it will be difficult to fight in a short time.In this way, the fall of Calcutta was no longer inevitable.But the problem is that Calcutta is one of the largest cities in India and was once the residence of the Governor of India.Nearby East and West Bengal are also one of the most developed areas in agriculture and economy in the whole of India. Once these two states fall, the Assam region in the northeast of them will also be lost... and the Communist Party that has mastered East and West Bengal and Assam But it is in a favorable position to advance and seize the whole of India, and to retreat and split Northeast India to establish an independent country!

Can New Delhi accept such consequences?If the New Delhi government insists on defending Calcutta, will it include the entire eastern part of India?Louis Mountbatten was not sure how to persuade Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi?

"Do you want to ask New Delhi for help? Ask General Slim to bring the troops back quickly?" Admiral Singh asked again.

"No, Calcutta can't keep it. It's better to declare it an undefended city and withdraw the troops in Calcutta to Assam." Mountbatten replied after thinking for a moment.

"Go to Assam!?" Admiral Singer was taken aback for a while, and he fixedly looked at Mountbatten.If Calcutta and East and West Bengal are lost, Assam will be isolated, and it will not be a dead end by then!

"Your Excellency, General, please report my suggestion to New Delhi." Mountbatten thought for a moment, and then said: "I suggest ordering the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army to retreat to Calcutta, and at the same time transport the materials in Calcutta to Imphal. Fortress. Also, the local troops we can mobilize will also go to Imphal Fortress. I want to turn it into a nail in the back of the Communist Party!" Speaking of this, Mountbatten's tone suddenly became serious, " Also explain the situation here to President Gandhi, the Communist Party has 8 tanks, thousands of cannons and at least 9 troops, so we have no way to hold Calcutta..."

At this moment, an Indian staff officer suddenly ran in from the outside out of breath, shouting as he ran, "Gandhi! Mahatma Gandhi is coming to Calcutta!"

Chapter 0900 anti-encirclement and long march (fifteen) Mahatma

"Vice Chairman Mao, good news! Good news! The Indian traitor Gandhi arrived in Calcutta this afternoon, and he announced that he would live and die with Calcutta!" Chen Boda's excited voice rang in Mao Zedong's ear.

The brush in Mao Zedong's hand flicked, and a cloud of black ink dripped on the document in front of him.He frowned slightly, and a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind. He stood up, walked to the window, opened the window, and looked at the darkness in the distance to the north.Where is his General Peng now?We're almost on the Hooghly River, aren't we?Had Gandhi not come to Calcutta, India's largest city would either have been turned into a decoy to attract a reactionary Indian army to its rescue, or it would have been simply abandoned and fell into the hands of the people intact.But now that Mahatma Gandhi has personally come to Calcutta to sit in charge, will things change?

There was another sound of footsteps outside the door. Mao Zedong turned around and saw Ye Ting walking in, holding a copy of a newspaper in his hand, and smiled at Mao Zedong: "Vice Chairman, Commander Peng from Balasore is calling, go north The Legion surrounded about 8 people from the remnants of the Indian 3th Army in Kharagpur. In addition, the Armored Division of the Comintern, the 5th and 10th Divisions of the South Asian Army had broken through the makeshift defense line of the Indian 11th Army and advanced to the On the west bank of the Hooghly River, just across the river from Calcutta! Victory is at hand..."

Mao Zedong sighed slightly, "Xi Yi, have you heard the news that Gandhi has arrived in Calcutta? This Mahatma is a saint in the eyes of the Indian people, and his status is even lower than that of Sun Yat-sen in our Chinese hearts back then." Be tall... With him in Calcutta, will the remnants of the defeated generals have the courage to fight us?"

Ye Ting was taken aback when he heard the words, thought for a while, and shook his head slightly.He used to be the battalion commander of Sun Yat-sen's guard. He knew the situation back then. In fact, Sun Yat-sen didn't have much prestige at that time. Even in the Cantonese army, there were many people who were obsessed with him and even opposed him openly.If it weren't for the two reactionaries Luo Yaoguo and Chiang Kai-shek to "dewarlordize" and open a lot of military academies to train young officers who "blindly worship Sun Yat-sen", and then use the method of media control to create a personality cult for Sun Yat-sen I am afraid that the current China has already embarked on the road of democracy and freedom under the leadership of the Communist Party, and it will never be the current imperialism!And is there such a reactionary and treacherous figure as Luo Yaoguo beside Mahatma Gandhi?Probably not, otherwise the defeat of the Indian army would not have suffered to this extent.

"Vice Chairman, why worry about a Gandhi? We won't be able to catch him when we conquer Calcutta..." Chen Boda interjected with a smile.But before he finished speaking, Mao Zedong interrupted him, "What do you know! Gandhi is a Mahatma, the leader of the reactionary forces in India, and the most dangerous enemy of the Indian revolutionary forces! Moreover, he was The poor and lower-middle peasants in India also have an unimaginable appeal, and now that he has entered Calcutta, he is likely to twist the entire reactionary forces in Bangladesh into one rope, and there are still 10,000+ local troops there!"

"Vice Chairman, we have 25 troops and more than 1000 artillery pieces. It is not easy to fight 10,000+ Indian local troops." Ye Ting smiled slightly and assured Mao Zedong: "Give us 10 days, up to 15 days, and I promise to liberate Calcutta, capture Gandhi alive!"

With a gloomy face, Mao Zedong lit a cigarette and smoked, his eyebrows gradually moved together, as if he was thinking hard.The agrarian revolution in Odisha was personally grasped by him, and he naturally knew the great prestige of Mahatma Gandhi among ordinary Indian people, especially the bottom-level Indian people.This shriveled-looking old man, whom Churchill called a "half-naked liar", is a god in the hearts of Indians!Moreover, India's awe of God is not comparable to the Chinese who always like to "bargain and make deals" with God.

Of course, it is not all a bad thing for this "god" to enter Calcutta now. His great prestige can indeed inspire the Calcutta defenders to fight to the death, but at the same time, the New Delhi government can no longer ignore Calcutta!If they watched Calcutta fall and Gandhi was captured and killed, the prestige of this government in the hearts of the Indian people would also be discredited.Of course, Gandhi could have gotten on a plane and fled hastily before the fall of Calcutta, but his reputation as a "mahatma" was about to drop in value.

Thinking of this, he shook his head slightly, and said lightly: "It is also a good thing for us that Gandhi has thrown himself into Calcutta, although the rabble in Calcutta will fight for him. However, the Indian puppet army also has to do everything possible I went to rescue Calcutta, which will help us annihilate them one by one in the west of Calcutta!" At this point, Mao Zedong paused, and then instructed: "Telegram Xiang Ying, Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi and other comrades, the battle of Calcutta will continue Execute the plan of siege and aid. Siege Calcutta with a strong force, deploy the main force to the west of Calcutta, and wait for the Indian puppet army reinforcements to come to the decisive battle. At the same time, send a small group of troops to protect the cadres of the Indian Communist Party to establish political power in various parts of West Bengal, Launch the Agrarian Revolutionary Movement.

Comrade Lu Yi and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India were telegraphed, and the Advisory Group of the Eastern Bureau of the Communist International suggested that they immediately carry out land and caste revolution in West Bengal.At the same time, we should also pay attention to improving the deficiencies in the land and caste revolution, avoid excessive behavior, strive for less or no killing, and put an end to the indiscriminate extermination of princes and Brahman landlords.In addition, 1000 cadres with urban work experience should be transferred to Bhubaneshwar to attend a study class to learn what should be paid attention to when taking over a large industrial and commercial city..."

The study class Mao Zedong mentioned was set up for the smooth takeover of Calcutta.The CCP has taken over big cities like Beijing and Tianjin during the domestic revolutionary struggle before. However, due to the lack of experience in managing large industrial and commercial cities in the early days, the CCP adopted many radical measures after entering the city, resulting in many unnecessary loss.In recent years, as the CCP has become more mature politically, it has also begun to summarize the gains and losses in the early revolutionary activities, and combined with their experience in the governance of the Baotou Special Economic Zone, they have formulated a series of methods to transform and manage capitalist industrial and commercial cities.Now it is time to pass it on to Indian comrades, lest they inadvertently cut down the cash cow of Calcutta!

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Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal, is currently the largest city in India. It has been the capital of British India for 1911 years before 140. It is also the center of education, science, culture and politics in India. It also has developed capitalist industry and commerce. It is also the capital of India. Origin and center of the independence movement.

But at this time, Calcutta was already in a state of chaos. This large city with two to three million residents seemed to be caught in the flames of war overnight.Gunshots and shell explosions were heard everywhere in the west and north of the city.The shells of the 300mm heavy howitzers of the South Asian Army of the Communist International fell into the urban area from time to time.The remnants of the Ninth Army of the Indian Central Army that retreated to Calcutta, as well as the officers and soldiers of the local troops from Bangladesh, Assam and other places, set up defense lines along the Hooghly River and the northern suburbs of the city to resist desperately.However, their military strength and firepower are far weaker than their opponents. Although Mahatma Gandhi visited the front line to boost morale, they are still in danger.On the night of July 150, Indian indigenous soldiers from the South Asian Army of the Comintern, who were wearing Indian army uniforms, infiltrated into the urban area. There was a fierce exchange of fire with the Indian army, and revolutionary slogans "Destroy Brahmins and Kshatriyas" were posted everywhere. The high-caste bourgeoisie and middle class all over the city are in panic all day long.

In the headquarters of the Eastern Indian Military Region in New Fort William, the atmosphere was dignified and tense. Mahatma Gandhi's eye sockets were sunken, his eyes behind the glasses were full of worry, and his body was bent, as if he was very tired, not low. He coughed a few times, which made all Ah San present feel distressed.Mountbatten and Singh also had gloomy faces. The current war is very unfavorable. The 8 people of the Indian 3th Army are surrounded by at least 5 Communist troops. They failed to break through several times. It seems that the entire army is wiped out. problem.About 5 people from the Ninth Indian Army retreated into Calcutta, but all their heavy weapons and supplies were lost. Now they can only rely on light weapons to fight. Fortunately, there is an arsenal left by the British colonial authorities in Calcutta to manufacture guns and bullets. Otherwise, this At least 9 of the 3 men in the Ninth Army had to fight with their hands.In addition, the situation of the local troops coming from Assam and Bangladesh is also very bad, and they have received little training. But it is dangerous.

Mountbatten still suggested tactfully to abandon Calcutta and retreat to Imphal in Assam, which is a real fortress with dangerous terrain, sufficient reserves, a large number of fortifications left by the British and Indian troops, and dozens of fort heavy artillery available.As long as they entered the Imphal Fortress, the Communist International South Asian Army controlled by the CCP had no other choice but to fill it with blood.

However, Mahatma Gandhi was unwilling to give up Calcutta. In his view, giving up Calcutta was equivalent to giving up the entire Bengal and Assam regions. Perhaps Jharkhand and Bihar would also fall, and the Communist Party would control six countries. The territory of a state... India is very likely to be divided because of this.

The division of India is what Gandhi is most worried about now, even more than letting the Communist Party control the whole of India!Because Gandhi didn't think that an imperialist power would watch another Soviet Union rise up around them.However, a divided and weakened India with civil wars is very much in the interests of this country... This is why Gandhi flew from New Delhi to Calcutta in a hurry.

He believed that his prestige would surely inspire the Indian army in Calcutta to fight to the end.Those Chinese may withdraw their troops to break through the siege and leave after a long period of failure.

But at this moment, Major General Raman, the city defense commander of Calcutta, reported that a large number of "communist bandits" appeared in Besirhad to the west of Calcutta and Jagdib area to the south. These "communist bandits" were probably detoured from the north or The purpose of crossing the river from the lower reaches of the Hooghly River in a small boat should be to surround Calcutta!

This news shocked Mountbatten and Singer very much, because Calcutta is a big city with 300 million residents, and the daily food consumption alone is an astronomical figure!If once the city is besieged, a few million mouths can quickly consume the small food reserves, and Calcutta will be self-defeating by then.

"Your Excellency, there are not many reserves in Calcutta, and hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured into the city in recent days. Even with the strictest rationing, it can last for at most 2 months!" Major General Raman said. filled with worry.It is now the end of July, and there are only three months before the autumn harvest in India. Naturally, there will be a steady stream of grain shipped into Calcutta...the grain price will definitely drop by then, so the grain merchants in the city are not doing it now. Willing to hoard excess inventory!And the official grain reserves were unable to cope with the situation of the siege.

"Two months! Can our army defeat the Communist army and break the siege of Calcutta?" Gandhi asked in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency, I still suggest temporarily abandoning Calcutta and withdrawing troops to Imphal." Mountbatten still insisted on his opinion.

"I suggest that you immediately evacuate the useless population, control the stocks in the hands of each grain business, and then implement strict rationing. This should last until our army comes to rescue." Singer glanced at Mahatma's expectant eyes, still not satisfied I have the heart to let this old man down.

"Okay, that's it! Admiral Singh, Lieutenant General Mountbatten, the task of defending Calcutta is entrusted to you." Gandhi breathed a sigh of relief, forced a little smile, and said: "And I will stay in Calcutta , Live and die with this city! And only eat one meal a day, and leave the food to the heroes who fight to defend the city!"

At this moment, Gandhi still doesn't know that it is precisely because of his decision that the scale of India's "civil war" has further escalated, and the millions of residents in Calcutta will also pay a heavy price for it!

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"Crack! Crack! Crack..." After a few crisp gunshots, a native Indian officer wearing a blue-gray military uniform and a hat with a red star inlaid on it jumped onto the top of a broken-down car on the side of the road. On the road, he yelled at the refugees crowded on the road in Hindi: "Kalcutta is already under the siege of the South Asian Army of the Communist International. In order to prevent the Brahmin reactionaries in the city from escaping in the chaos, no one is now allowed to leave the encirclement! All Indians are only allowed to enter, not to exit!" As he said this, he raised his pistol and fired several shots into the sky. "But foreigners can leave! We will keep all foreigners safe!"

At his feet, a group of indigenous soldiers from the South Asian Army of the Comintern had already set up roadblocks in the middle of the road and set up machine guns!Divide the refugees who can't see the side into two.A stream of people flowing from Calcutta was cut off immediately, while another stream of people flocking to Calcutta was able to pass through the blockade smoothly...

Although Mahatma Gandhi had ordered the evacuation of the "useless population" in Calcutta, at the same time, a large number of people fleeing from West Bengal and Jharkhand kept pouring in the direction of Calcutta.Perhaps in their view, the largest city in India, where Gandhi sits, is the safest place to go right now.Many of the fleeing crowd were high-caste Indians such as "Brahmins" or "Kshatriyas" with bright clothes and white skin.These people carried their most precious belongings on their backs, dragged their families and fled for their lives all the way, and trembled when they saw the checkpoints with red flags along the way, fearing that their Brahmin caste would be exposed, and they would die!However, those communist fighters holding steel guns with serious expressions and looking very awkward seemed to have not seen these "Brahmins" and let them go all the way to Calcutta crying their wives.According to estimates by the Calcutta city government, in the ten days since July 7, more than one million refugees fled to Calcutta from West Bengal and other places!The corrupt and incompetent Indian reactionary government was unprepared for this, so that these refugees were allowed to sleep on the streets in Calcutta, without food or clothing.

Only Mother Teresa, the principal of St. Mary Loreto Secondary School in Calcutta at that time, organized a Missionary Sisters of Charity to undertake the work of helping refugees, and even ventured out of the city to negotiate with the Indian Communists on humanitarian assistance. As a result, he was almost taken as a spy to shoot the target, but in the end Mussolini interceded (in the face of the Pope of Rome) and nothing happened... It is worth mentioning that later this Mother Maria Teresa still Received the Nobel Peace Prize.

However, at that time, the whole world was in the "truce period" of the Second World War, and the major powers were busy preparing for the second half of the World War. No one was interested in caring about the humanitarian disaster that was happening somewhere in India, nor People condemn Gandhi, President of the Republic of India, who created this disaster.

In fact, the major powers of the world are creating similar humanitarian crises themselves!For example, the Chinese imperialists are forcibly relocating the aborigines in Quang Nam, Singapore and Nanhai provinces into the so-called "reserved areas".However, the Japanese imperialists went on a killing spree after capturing Australia's largest city, Sydney, at the end of July, creating the "Sydney Massacre" that shocked the world.Even the United States, which has always flaunted human rights and democracy, brutally suppressed the demonstrations of the Mexican people in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, to protest against the United States' refusal to annex Mexico...but Mr. Adolf Hitler, the big devil in another time and space, did not He has devoted all his energy to preparing for the invasion of the United States after doing something outrageous, so that even the Jews in Europe are temporarily not interested in massacring them.

Chapter 0901 anti-encirclement and long march ([-]) Is Stalin crazy?

In the night, a fire dragon twists and turns on the mountain roads of Balochistan in northwest India, rolling and slowly heading north.

"Comrade Zaitsev, where are we? Are we going back to the Soviet Union?"

Captain Zaitsev, the company instructor of the Soviet Red Army's Feladimir Lenin Division, turned his head and glanced at the boy who asked the question. There are also a few small freckles.If it weren't for the imperialist aggression, such children should still be in middle school, live happily with their parents and family members, maybe go on outings with classmates, and participate in activities organized by the Young Pioneers or the Communist Youth League. It has nothing to do, let alone carry a rifle that is about the same length as your height and die in a foreign country at a young age...

In fact, such children can be found everywhere in the current Soviet Red Army. They were originally the children of Red Army officers or Bolshevik party cadres. They were exiled from the Soviet Union with their parents. Carefree life, but after arriving in India, especially after the failure of the Karachi battle, the troops suffered heavy losses. Comrade Stalin called on everyone who could take up arms to join the Red Army to defend the Bolshevik Party, so they answered the call to join the Red Army and prepared to use them The torso that has not yet grown up has gone to fight the enemy armed to the teeth by the imperialists.

"We are in Balochistan, and now we are going north to fight the Chinese devils." Zaitsev smiled wryly, and looked at the endless mountains around him in confusion.

Half a month ago, after the Red Army was defeated by the Indian armored forces under the city of Karachi, they fled in embarrassment and got into the mountains. They ran all the way north for hundreds of kilometers and finally achieved a "victory meeting" with the Indian Army and the Reserve Army in Khuzdal. ".Then, before he had time to rest, he embarked on the road of "going north to fight against China" again.

Have you finally reached the point where you give up on yourself and commit suicide carelessly?The Red Army can't even beat India's Asan, and it actually wants to go north to fight the Chinese imperialists!What's the difference between this and death?Or did Comrade Stalin have some clever plan to turn things around?

One after another, doubts shrouded the hearts of the soldiers, but no one dared to speak out, because the faces of the political cadres and internal affairs personnel in the army had become gloomy again in the past two days. labeled as counter-revolutionaries.

As for sneaking away and betraying the revolution... It's not that I don't want to, but I can't do it at all!This is not Russia, nor Persia, but the territory of the Baloch barbarians!Surrounded by vast mountains, once you leave the team, you can't even find your way, and most likely you will starve to death in these mountains.

And everyone still has an idea in their hearts, maybe going north to fight against China is just a cover, used to deceive Indians, the real purpose is to occupy a piece of land in India, and then everyone will be able to live a good life for a few years... In short , with the great leader Stalin around, the Red Army will definitely have a way out!

But how could these middle- and lower-level officers and soldiers of the Red Army think that now, when the top leaders of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army think of the great leader Stalin, their brains will ache!

"How is Comrade Stalin? Is he feeling better?" After inspecting the troops, Zhukov arrived at the temporary station of the troops for a while, and became concerned about the great leader's condition.